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Thursday, August 9, 2012

...And This Is Why Our 2nd Amendment Rights Should NEVER Be Infringed Upon!

It’s
not every day that you hear the police give a civilian a warm “thank
you” for entering a lethal shootout, but that’s exactly what happened in
Early, Texas on Sunday. But before we get into the heroic civilian
shooter, let’s back up a bit.

See a Man About a Dog

It all
began, innocently enough, “as a squabble over dogs.” David Michael
House, 58, and Iris Valentina Calaci, 53, were both residents at the
Peach House RV Park in central Texas. They were also dog owners, and
their pooches allegedly had a nasty habit of relieving themselves on the
lawn of neighbor Charles Ronald Conner, 58.

According to
eyewitnesses, Conner approached House about his dog, and an argument
broke out. Rather than dealing with the confrontation like a normal
human being, Conner allegedly went back to his RV, got his gun, returned
to House, and lethally shot him.

The gun shots prompted Calaci
to run screaming from her trailer home, but she didn’t get far. Conner
chased her down, shot her once and then fired another shot into her,
execution style.

Amazingly, Conner’s shooting spree didn’t end
there. He also shot and killed the two dogs that, in his confused mind,
started the mess.

Fatally shooting your neighbors over an issue
of dog doo might seem absurdly over-the-top to normal people like you
and us, but it might have appeared perfectly sensible to Conner.
Conner’s family explained that he had “mental problems.” Police later
found a notebook in Conner’s trailer with nearly incomprehensible
“ramblings.”

Conner might’ve been able to get a lenient sentence
in court due to his troubled mental state, but that day will never come
– there was to be one more shooting on that tragic day, this time in
the name of defense.

Shots Fired

Sgt. Steven Means of
the Early Police Department came rolling onto the scene, but he had
barely gotten out of his car before Conner began opening fire on the
officer. Means took cover behind his police car and returned fire with
an AR-15, but Conner maintained cover behind a tree. Eyewitnesses report
that this positioning gave Conner the upper hand over the out-gunned
police officer.A Helping Hand

Means and Conner weren’t
the only two people with their attention riveted on the gun fight. Vic
Stacy, another resident of the RV park, saw the gun fight break out as
he was watching TV in his mobile home and thought to himself, “I’m going
to see what’s going to happen here and if I need to I’ll, you know, get
in on it.”

Stacy, who had a seen Conner around his trailer park
and described him as "off the wall", watched the gun fight for a few
moments and concluded, “I think (Conner) is gonna take (the officer) out
if I don’t help him out.”

So, that’s when Stacy decided to act.
Conner may have had excellent cover against the Officer Means, but Stacy
was in a flanking position that gave him the perfect vantage point.
Stacy recalled, “I had a side view of that man the whole time standing
there, and I thought, I’m fixin’ to put one in him, if I can.”

Stacy
raised his gun, fired, and landed one hell of a shot – by his estimate
“a good 165 yards” – with a pistol (we do not know the make or caliber
at this time). Stacy wasn’t even sure if he could make the shot at that
distance: “I hope this magnum bullet’ll hold up, you know, this
distance. And sure enough it did and I hit him in the thigh.”

At
that point, Conner returned fire against Stacy with his AR-15. He missed
his shot, luckily, but that gave dead-eye Stacy another opportunity to
pull the trigger. Stacy “hit him again and put three more in him … The
patrolman got two shots in him with that AR-15. And it seems like he’s
all over with, then.”

Conner died on the scene, but if it wasn’t for the aid of Vic Stacy, the body count might have been a lot higher.

Thanks for the Help!

More
police arrived on scene an promptly threw Stacy in cuffs, but after
Officer Means cleared up what had happened they released Stacy. Brown
County Sheriff Bobby Grubbs later said, "The citizen that fired these
shots did a tremendous job out there. Had he not had a gun and the
presence of mind to do this, we don't know what the outcome would've
been.”

It is currently unclear as to whether it was Stacy's
shots or Officer Mean's shots that delivered the killing blow. Either
way, the police are not planning to press charges against Stacy. If
anything, they should give him a medal.

Police and RV park
residents alike have been calling Stacy a hero, but he’s rejected the
label. He said that he’s just an “average workin’ person” who was just
“trying to help an officer out.”

Stacy told Brownwood Bulletin
that he wasn’t able to sleep at all the night following the shooting,
but the following day was a different story. Stacy was able to get a
good night's sleep after police convinced him that he had acted
appropriately and saved lives.

Stacy added, “I hate that it happened. But I’m glad that we got him down. I felt sorry for those people.”

We
might have a new role model. Vic Stacy was not overeager to pull the
trigger, he felt the appropriate weight on his conscience after taking
the life of another person, and he hasn’t let the media attention get to
his head. If you ask us, the world could use a few more Vic Stacys.